Thomas Hill Williams

Thomas Hill Williams (1780-1840) was a US Senator from Mississippi from 10 December 1817 to 4 March 1829, preceding Thomas Buck Reed. He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
Thomas Hill Williams was born in Surry County, North Carolina in 1780, and he worked as a lawyer before serving as register of the land office for the Mississippi Territory in 1805, secretary that same year, and acting governor in 1806. In 1810, he served as a customs collector in New Orleans, and he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention. After Mississippi was admitted to the union in 1817, he served as one of its inaugural US Senators, serving from 1817 to 1829. He died in Robertson County, Tennessee in 1840.